Barclays PLC

The Guardian: Barclays has admitted it "terminated" the employment of five people involved in the Libor scandal and conceded it is reviewing as many as 80 other financial instruments where it helps to set the price

Financial Times: Barclays is considering exiting agricultural commodities trading as part of its attempts to rebuild its battered reputation after a series of scandals

Daily Mail: Mike Walters, the head of compliance at Barclays, was slammed by the Banking Commission’s joint committee for refusing to take any responsibility for the string of scandals that occurred under his watch

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

NDTV: A French appeals court on Wednesday upheld a ruling ordering GlaxoSmithKline to pay 197,000 euros to a man who claimed that its drug to treat Parkinson's turned him into a gay sex and gambling addict

Chicago Tribune: Drugmakers - led by GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson - are stepping up efforts to ensure their medicines are available and affordable in poor countries

National Grid PLC

Providence Journal: National Grid workers say they have gotten only partial pay or no pay at all after weeks of hard and sometime dangerous work to repair Hurricane Sandy's damage to the electrical system in Providence, RI, and New York

Tullow Oil PLC

Financial Express: Tullow Oil has sought unitisation of onshore Bangora and Srikail gas fields in Bangladesh, fearing a sharp fall in natural gas output from its Bangora field after the start of production in the Srikail field